How to convert a function into string?

Question

Example function:

def my_function():if 9>8 print("Hello from a function") else print("Goodbye")

Expected Output:

String : """def my_function(): if 9>8 print("Hello from a function") else print("Goodbye")"""

Includes the reserved words (def,if,else) as well.

• martineau: The definition of your example function is syntactically invalid.

Answer 1

Use inspect.getsource()

As pointed out by @martineau (thx), your function had a SyntaxError. I reformatted your function and used a ternary to keep it single-line.

 import inspect 
 def my_function(): print("Hello from a function") if 9>8 else print("Goodbye")
 print(inspect.getsource(my_function))

Output:

def my_function(): if 9>8 print("Hello from a function") else print("Goodbye")

• martineau: This does not work because the function definition is a SyntaxError.
• milt_on: @martineau ah yes you're right about the function syntax - corrected it
• martineau: ...and I think it is something you should mention in your answer.